Articles:
NAKAI kuniyoshi  The Credit System and Academic Calendar in Universities :
    “1 Credit = 45 Hours of Work” and Its Interpretation as “1 Subject = 1350 Minutes of Class (15
Weeks)”
NAKAFUMI Soyu, ITO Takashi, No Jaeok  Current Status and Problems of Chinese Characters
Education in Japan, China and South Korea
TAKAGI Masao  Japan’s Oldest-old Population in the Edo Period (2) :
    An Attempt to Use Historical Materials of the Naoshima Island, Uwajima and Sendai Domain,
1720-1872
WATANABE Yusuke  A Study of the Life Stories of Student Soldiers Diligently Engaged in Military
Service
Special Section : Studying Critical Realism
SATO Harukichi  To Edit a Specialissue on “Critical Realism”
Section I : Critical Realism in Social Science Research
NAKAZAWA Taira  Discovery of Mechanisms and Criteria of Their Identifications :
    Based on Bhaskar’s Philosophy of Science
KIDA Akio  Critical Realism and Retroduction :
    On Comparisons of Social Sciences

NOMURA Masaru  Triangulation between Two Research Designs Based on Critical Realism :
    Refining the Concepts of Intensive and Extensive Design
KATO Masatoshi  On Bob Jessop’s Works Concerning Political Analysis
OTSUKI Isao  Cultural Research and Critical Realism :
    For Cultural Research after the Cultural Turn
NAKAMURA Tadashi  Sociological Examinations on Social Constructionism and Critical Realism for
Searching the Possibility to Develop the New Way of Understanding the Social Problem :
    About the Issues of Coercive Control Behavior on Aggression and Silencing
MATSUDA Ryozo  Social Epidemiological Research Based on Critical Realism :
    On a Series of Papers by John Eastwood
Section II : An Academic Program of the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of College of Social Sciences : “Critical Realism and its Possibility in Social Sciences : An Alternative in Fundamental Social Theories”
Berth Danermark, HORI Masaharu (tr.)  The First Lecture : Critical Realism - An Introduction
Jan Ch. Karlsson, KATO Masatoshi (tr.)  The Second Letcure : Social Structures and Human Agency
Jan Ch. Karlsson, NAKAZAWA Taira (tr.)  The Third Lecture : Critical Realism, Research Techniques, and Research Designs

Berth Danermark, SATO Harukichi (tr.)  The Forth Lecture : Some Methodological Guidelines for Applied Critical Realist Research